Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walker, slated to be Foreign Secretary, was beaten in his constituency of Smethwick, a part of Birmingham where the race issue is raging because of heavy immigration by West Indians, Pakistanis and Sikhs from India, turning whole neighborhoods into slums. Because the Laborites originally opposed Tory-sponsored curbs on Commonwealth immigration (actually, they have since changed their stand), and because the party platform blames conditions on "landlordism" rather than on the immigrants themselves, a devastating local slogan arose: "If you want a nigger neighbor, vote Labor...
Harvard received 33 per cent of a total of $130.5 million granted by the foundation to 32 public service institutions and organizations in the Commonwealth. M.I.T. was second with nearly $23 million...
...Laborites criticize independence as moving from "colonialism to neo colonialism," want Malta to leave the Commonwealth and immediately close down the British military bases. Most Maltese, however, fear independence for just the opposite reason, since the military bases supplied one-third of all income, employed one-sixth of the labor force - and have given Malta a living standard far beyond its means. With the missile age eroding the strategic value of Malta's midMediterranean location, they fear that independence can only hasten the process of decay...
...middle of June, the University joined a campaign against a proposed Commonwealth Edison plant to be built in upper New York state. If Con Ed goes through with its plans to build the hydro-electric power project in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, the University will lose slightly more than 200 acres of its Black Rock Forest...
...Portugal. Although snubbed by the Commonwealth Conference in London in July, Smith decided to behave himself until further negotiations can be tried, but there is growing evidence that he may not go on behaving himself much longer...